The Day Canonical Pushed Kubuntu Out of the Nest

Linux fans have had a hard enough time watching the ongoing woes of Mandriva in recent months, so when the news hit last week that Kubuntu was under threat as well, it just felt like too much. “Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04,” wrote developer Jonathan Riddell in a message to Kubuntu developers. “This is a rational business decision. Kubuntu has not been a business success after 7 years of trying, and it is unrealistic to expect it to continue to have financial resources put into it.”